Piling-machine



C. TAYLOR AND B. H. S-AUNDERS.

FILING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DC. l, |919.

3 SHEETS-SHEET l.

Moz/na PIenIed June 1, 1920.

c'. TAYLOR AND B. H. SAUNDERS.v PILING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I, |919.

Patented im 1, 1920.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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PILING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED Dsc. I, I9I9.

v'3 SHEETS-SHEET s.

1,342,190, I Pawntemn 1, 1920.A

UNI-ran sraras e'araeirosaics.

cHARLEs TAYLOR AND BERTRAM H. sAUNnERs, or rArERsoN, `NEW JERSEY.

Prune-MACHINE.

Applicatonl'led December 1, 1919. Serial 110,341,571.. nf..

To all whom it may concern -Be it known that we, CHARLES TAYLOR, a subject of the King of `Grreat Britain, and a resident of Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, and BERTRAM H. SAUNDERs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Piling-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in piling machines for piling fabrics. Our invention is especially intended for improvements in piling machines which take long ropes of fabric and pile them in even compact layers so that the fabric will not become badly 'twisted and tangled, and so 'that it can be readily withdrawn from the pile.

Our machine is particularly adapted for handling long ropes of fabric, and especially textile fabric, andV pile them in compact symmetrical layers, and forvthis reason the machine can be readily adapted to piling such fabrics in keirs or other receptacles 1n which the fabric is treated in bleaching or other liquors, and by our arrangement the fabric can be rapidly, evenly, and compactly piled in such a vessel in such a way that all parts of the fabric will receive proper treatment from the liquor and yet in such a manner that the fabric'can be readily withdrawn after treatment. In attempts todo this work by machinery, difliculties have arisen sometimes because the' machinery has been too intricate and fragile to coarse operation, and because machine piling has had a tendency to cause the fabric to become twisted and tangled so that it isnot properly treated, and furthermore, when so twisted and tangled it cannot be withdrawn without injury. Attempts have 4been madeV to pile the fabric in spiral layers, such spirals running in and out from the center to the `circumference of the pile, and this idea is especially objectionable because the fab.-

ric becomes so badlyV twisted and tangled that it cannot be withdrawn without injury,

and sometimes without actually cutting it up to permit its removal. Our invention overcomes the above difficulty, andfit isfurther intended to produce a very simple and strong machine having few parts, so that it can be depended on to dol its work properly, and furthermore, the invention'is intended to provide means by which the operative parts of the machine can be readily raised withstand this ratherl Specification of Letters Patent. l Patented June 1920 and lowered toad'aptv it to special work, as will be` hereinafter described. t Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference char-l acters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.v

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine embodying our invention, showing its application to a keir.

Fig.. 2 is a central vertical section-of the machine.

Fig. 3 isa plan view thereof.

Fig. 4 is a broken sectional planon the line 4.--4 of Fig. 2, and j Fig. 5V is a detailsection on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2. Y i

VThe machine `or apparatus is supported on a suitable platform 10 or the like, from which preferably rises a supporting bracket 11 carrying the reel 12 over which the fabric is rolled whenpiled or removed from the pile. The reel`12 can be carried by the shaft 9 mounted on the bracket '11, and suitably driven. As the fabric runs over the reel 12 it is delivered through ya funnel mouth 14 to the vertically arranged `pipe or tube 15, and this is rigidly secured in a sleeve 16 on a light Yframework 17, the latter having dependingV parts 18V with lateral arms 19 resting in the open ltopped brackets 2O of the posts 21. These posts areshown supported on the top of the keir22 but they can be supported on any other vessel to which the fabric is to be supplied, or in some cases as when thepiler is used for piling in a bin or` on a floor (in which case .it' is not necessaryv to raiseand lower it) the posts can be dispensed with and the machine rigidly braced in a vfixedy position to the platform -10. The particular form of the frameworkand'connection between the pipe and the posts is not important, butV a suitable framework should be provided so as to brace the pipe, and itis desirable to have the framework restin suitable steadying supports as'described so that for certain uses it can bel readily removed from the supports "when desired, vfor` the 'reasons' whichwillpresently appear.

' Journaled' in one' o f the members 18- and' in a parallel bracket '1851L `dropped from the this can be rotated in any convenient way, as f for instance, by the belt 25 connecting with mo ent is imparted throughthe gears 26 and 27 to thecam 29 which revolves on ther pipe 1.5. vThe shaft 23 also carries a small Vbevel pinion 30 meshing with a horizontal gear wheel 31 on the sleeve 32 which is arranged inside of the sleeve 28,v andr is provided with? a fixed collar 33, and suitable bearings, preferably anti-friction or,l roller bearings y34 Aand 35 are arrangedz between kthe col-lar 33 iand the lower end of the sleeve 28, and between the collar 33l and a fixed collar 3.5a at the lower end ofthe piperl. The collar 33 has a depending arm 36 which has a knuckle36a thereon serving as alpiv-V otal support for the funnel or chute 37 which y is arranged below the pipe 15 and serves as a guiding medium to properly guide the fabric to be piled. The fumiel or chute 37 is fixed ,to theoscillating lever 33 which is s pivot'ed as shown at 3Sa to the knuckle 36a,

and Athis lever eXtendsupward andcontacts with the edge l,of the heart-shaped cam 29.

Obviously the shape ofthe cam can be va-v ried, butthis shape has been found desirable because it'imparts the proper movement to the-chute 37.

' VIt willy be seen that as the collar 33 rotates it will carry vwith it the arm 36 and guide chute 37 sothat the latter will have a rotary or axial movement, and as it re- Vv'olves, the free end of the lever 38 riding on'the face of the cam 29 willV move in and out Aand so oscillate the chute 37, imparting thereto a' movement nearly tangential to its '1f-axis' so that the fabric which issues from the guide chute will be laid in a pile of a gen- ",era'lstar shape and with the layers around acentral axis. v,Because of the difference in gearing ofthe cam and the chute, the oscillations and the revolutions ofv the chute vdo not synchronize.V Consequently the tangen-v tial path of the-free end of the `chute is adl vanced at each revolution over the path followed by fit in the preceding revolution.

l Thus during the complete cycle, the free Vend fabric will not be unduly twisted andV tan-- gled, but will be laidevenlyy inrpiles run-- of the ,chute traverses minutely every part f of theV area ofV an imaginary plane over the space'wherethe fabric is piled and the fabric is thereforeevenly distributed. ,Thus the ningfin-and out from the-center, sothat if'it'is to be treated with liquor, the liquorV will have even access to all-parts of the fab- 1 f ric,V ,and when thejfabric is to be withdrawn ,Y itrwill run smoothl7 andribe unpled Without l' i i If the fabric is piled in a keir or similar vessel where it is to be treated with liquor, it is the".v practice tOZeirCulate'Jthe liquor through the vessel, withdrawing it from the lowerpart thereof and returning it at the, top, and we have shown means for carrying out this usual practice.' A hose lpipe 39 conf nects with the lower. partof the keir in the usual'wa'y orany preferred way, (this is not shown in the drawing because it is the',V

common practice) andvat its upper end the pipe connects with a short pipe 40 which delivers into the, pipev 15 andthus provides for the return of the liquor,fand helps carry the fabric downthrough the pipe'l. In practice several. of these return pipes 39and connections 40 are used, but one is shown. in the drawings.

The upper end of the pipev 1,5` isvheld rig'- idly in a sleeve 41 which is vertically movable in the framework or bracket 43 'connected with the support 10. The sleeve L1 is provided with-a rack 42,` and this meshes with a worm k43 on the worm sh-aft44l'which is journaled in the bracket 434 and the shaft l14E connects vby a universal `joint 45 with a .rodi 4-6 which extends downward and outwardand is provided with a wheel 47 byVV which it canbe turned. Thus when the fabric has been piled in a keir or similar vessel,

the whole operative apparatus can be raised by turning the worm wheel -43 which will lift the pipe 15, the framework 17, and-the operlating gears and parts aswell as the chute 37, so thatthe latter can be readily removed from the vessel in'whichit has been delivering fabric'. When the ,fabric has been Atreated andY is to be removed, it is simply rewound over the Y- reelV 12 andjwithdrawn from the pile. j' f From the foregoing description it will be seen that we have deviseda `verysimpleand practical machine as 'well asL a strong onev for doing the workljrand obviously many of the details 'of constructioncan be changed without affecting the principle of the invention4 AThe important thing, is to have thel fabric delivered throughthe guide or distributing lchute so as to be piledin even layers running in and out from the center, and

preferably in a generally radial' or tangential Inanner, so that all parts can bel readily treated, and can be aslreadily removed without damage. Likewise it will-be' seen that the machine can be used for piling fabrics lon an open floor orin any form of con-w tainer, as well asin We claim a treating vessel or keir.

LA piling machine comprisinga guidey or distributing chute,`means forV rotatingv the chute and also.,impartingamovement. injand out atk a vtangent to its circle of rota- Y tion, and Vmeans for'V delivering fabricv to the chute;

2, A piiing mache@ adapted no deliver fabric in a pile, and characterized by a distributing or guide chute, means for rotating the chute, means for imparting to the chute a movement in and out with relation to its' axis, and means for raising and lowering the chute.

3. A piling machine comprising a rotat# able support, a guide chute, a lever secured to the chute and pivoted on the rotatable support, means for delivering fabric to the guide chute, and means for oscillating the lever whereby the guide chute will be rotated and moved in and out at a tangent to itsV circular movement.

5. A piling machine comprising a rotatable guide chute, means for delivering material to the chute in a generally radial manner, and means for lswinging the guide chute in and out with relation to its axis as the chute rotates.

6. A piling machine comprising a feed pipe, a rotatable support on the feed pipe, a guide chute suspended from said rotatable support and arranged below the feed pipe, a lever connected with the guide chute and pivoted on the said rotatable support, and means for oscillating the lever so as to swing the guide chute in and out in a generally radial manner with' relation to its axis.

7. A piling machine comprising a feed pipe, a guide chute rotatably supported below the pipe, means supported adjacent to the pipe for swinging the guide chute in and out with relation to its axis, and means for raising and lowering all the aforesaid mechanism.

8. A- piling machine comprising a vertically movable framework, a feed pipe carried by the framework, a rotatable support on the feed pipe, a guide chute carried by the support and arranged below the feed pipe, means for oscillating the guide chute on its support, the means for rotating and oscillating the guide chute being carried by the aforesaid framework, and means for raising and lowering the framework.

9. A piling'machine comprising a feed pipe, a rotatable support thereon, a guide chute arranged below the feed pipe, a lever connected to the guide chute and pivoted on the aforesaid rotatable support, a cam rotating around the feed pipe and actuating the said lever to swing 'the chute in and out in a generally radial manner, and a gear mechanism for operating the rotatable support and the cam.

10. A piling machine comprising a frameu work removably supported, a feed pipe vertically arranged and carried by the framework, a guide chute rotatably supported on the feed pipe, an oscillating lever connected with the guide chute tomove it in and out with relation to its axis, a cam rotating around the feed pipe and actuating the lever, and means for raising vand lowering the framework with relation to its supports.y

11. A piling machine comprising a vertically movable framework, a vertical feed pipe carried by the framework, a guide chute arranged below the feed pipe, means carried by the feed pipe and frame work for imparting a rotary movement and also .an oscillatory movement to the guide chute,

and a gear and rack mechanism for vertically adjusting the feed pipe framework and parts carried thereby.

CHARLES TAYLOR.' B-ERTRAMlI. SAUNDERS.

Witnesses: i

WARREN B. HUTCHINSON, M. G. ODONNELL.

,It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No.h1,342,190, granted June 1, 1920,

upon the application of Charles Taylor and Bertram H. Saunders, of Paterson, New Jersey, for an improvement in Filing-Machines, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 3, lines 23-24, claim 5, after the Word chute strike out the Words in a generally radial manner; same page and claim, line 24, after the Word chute insert the Words flfn, a generally radial marmer; and that the said Letters Patent should loe read lWith these corrections therein Vthat the sarne may conform to the record of the oase in the Patent OHice.

Signed and sealed this 10th day of May, A. D., 1921.

T. E. ROBERTSON,

Commissioner of Patents.

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